From Teahouse to Teetotaller:

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From Teahouse to Teetotaller

• Purdue Theatre Company --
• Forty Years and Still Growing!

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Quiet please!

• Cell phones and beepers
• Please unwrap your candy NOW!

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Theatre Paradoxes

• It is spontaneous, yet it is rehearsed
• It is participatory, yet it is presented
• Real, yet simulated
• Understandable, yet obscure
• Unique to the moment, yet repeatable
• Actors are themselves, yet characters
• Audience believes, yet it does not believe
• Audience is involved, yet it remains apart

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1964

• Purdue Theatre Company formed
• Maurice Bud Dixon, 1st sponsor, director
• Shoestring Summer Theatre
• Once Upon a Mattress
• The Elephant Man
• The Star Spangled Girl
• Experimental Theatre
• Dinner Theatre
• Celebration
• Dames at Sea

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The Plays (in no particular order)

• Teahouse of the August Moon
• The God Complex
• Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
• Butterflies are Free
• The Fantasticks
• LUV
• Im Getting My Act Together andTaking It On the
  Road
• Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• George Washington Slept Here

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Plays of the Dixon Dynasty

• A Cycle Complete by Mickie Hoggard
• 6 Rms Riv Vu
• On Borrowed Time
• Silent Night, Lonely Night
• Agnes of God
• Company
• The Runner Stumbles
• Celebration
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon
  Marigolds

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Oh What a Run!

• Slow Dance on the Killing Ground
• The Glass Menagerie L. Brechner
• Zorba
• My Three Angels D. Padberg
• Wait Until Dark
• Requiem for a Nun
• Dark of the Moon
• Echoes A. Cleek
• Barefoot in the Park
• The Time of Your Life

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It gets better with time!

• The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the
  Crowd
• The Lark
• The Boyfriend
• The Crucible
• Ten Little Indians
• In White America
• The Lonely Ones
• Hello Out There
• Summertree

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The Show MUST Go on!

• The Miracle Worker
• Twelve Angry Jurors
• Twelfth Night, or What You Will
• Love Rides the Rails or Will the Mail Train Run
  Tonight
• The Tender Trap
• Our Town
• The Doctor in Spite of Himself

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Break a Leg, again again again

• Sweet Charity
• And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson
• A Thousand Clowns E. Cohen
• Wizard of Oz
• The Odd Couple
• The Miss Firecracker Contest
• Night, Mother
• Dames at Sea

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Encore! Encore!

• Kiss Me, Kate
• South Pacific
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• Blues Highway
• Post PUC Death of a Salesman in Kuala Lumpur

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Introducing John Glover

• Joins the faculty in 1993
• Taught speech courses and directed Theatre
  Company shows

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Fits like a Glover!

• House of Blues Leaves
• Baby
• Anything Goes
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Nuts
• Is There Life After High School?
• The Art of Dining

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And the hits just keep on coming!

• Nunsense
• One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
• Pump Boys and Dinettes
• And the World Goes Round
• Participated in American College Theatre
  Festivals

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Enter From Stage Left Tom Bogucki

• Torch Song Trilogy
• As Is
• Me and My Girl
• Extremities
• Love Letters
• Little Footsteps
• Night, Mother
• Assassins
• Chess

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Bogucki Makes Good

• No Frills Review
• Closer Than Ever
• Anything Goes
• Blood Brothers
• Agnes of God
• Gypsy
• Schoolhouse Rock Live!
• Crimes of the Heart

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Hitting the Big Time

• Purdue Theatre Company Receives the Lifetime
  Achievement Award from the Northwest Indiana
  Excellence in Theatre Foundation

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Check it out

• www.nwindianatheatre.org

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The Channing semester

• Come Back, Little Sheba
• And the big question?
• Will there be more?
• That is an excellent question
• Perhaps
• And then again, maybe not

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New spaces, new places

• Dr. YJean Chambers Performance Space
• Musicals and mayhem
• Intimate performance space
• Handicapped access
• Guerilla theatre
• Multi-purpose spaces

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Thank you for your kind attention

• Please! Keep applauding until well after the
  curtain call!
• Lets Eat!! Sardis anyone? Or shall we go to
  the Russian Tea Room?